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This page is meant to explain typical causes of some error messages generated by the GHC during compilation and runtime. The page should explain basic errors in terms understandable for real newbies.

Compile errors

Type errors

Remark that GHC's type errors are not always in the right places should go here

GHC/Common Error Messages

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Compile errors

Type errors

Couldn't match type

Infinite type

Parse errors

Other errors

Runtime errors

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